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  • Indeed, he’s an idiot.

    People are afraid if he becomes prime minister. The thing is he’s a harmless idiot because he is all complain and rhetoric without offering any specific plan on how to implement what he wants. If what he wants happens, and then what? Should he come to power, it’s just going to be whatever the hell happens. His potential leadership will end up collapsing like the far right tenure in Sweden, Finland and The Netherlands. Farage never really have had any significant leadership experience, because he spent most of his career beating the drum but never leading the band.

    But from my personal perspective, his premiership, if he does become PM and even if it fails, will set precedence and open the floodgate to a cleverer authoritarian demagogue that could plunge UK to a full fascism. I think most people are short sighted about the snowball effect of current actions.



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    I don’t like the guy, but indeed he is being taken out of context if you read the full interview. What Farage means is that Brexit is not happening the way he wants it to happen. He wants more trade deals, stricter immigration, and leaving the obligations from international rules like the ECHR.




  • I guess I have a different understanding of frugal. For me, you can be rich and yet frugal, only spending money on the needs and occasional wants. Some people don’t even show that they’re net worth increased. I forgot the name of the person, but he worked as a janitor throughout his life. When he passed away, to his family’s utter surprise, he left $8 million from his investment account to his family. The guy could have cashed in the investment profits and lived lavishly but he didn’t.





  • My old high school classmates and I have warm feeling whenever we bump into each each other. I am lucky that my home city is small enough, everyone practically knows each other, and have a strong sense of community. My high school also fostered that sense of community in my class, so I think it has been instilled and manifested among us.

    So, the bigger reason, among many, why I moved out of town is more like I don’t want to see my college classmates lol. I only got along with certain people from my course. The only college mates I have still kept in touch with are two buddies from different courses.



  • USA under Franklin Roosevelt was probably the only time the country was firmly at the highest peak of moral ground.

    As for the rhetorical questions, you make it sound as though US fascists were in power to effect influence and policy change. They have been loud but never been influential enough. FDR have made sure of that.

    And as for the nuclear bombs, what could have been the other option? Potential 500k-1 million American deaths on invading Japan? And let’s not even think about how many more Japanese civilians could have died since they were brainwashed to fight to the death.